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The weather in Arizona could change at any moment. The heat of the sun allegedly melted the car of Cardinals defensive back Kei’Trel Clark just minutes before a surprise dust storm, known as a haboob.
It was a wild sequence of events in the desert.
I think there is probably more to this story than the NFL veteran is leading on and/or realizes, but he provided evidence of the melted vehicle. And then the entire area was suddenly covered in dirt.
I do not know the answer to that question. Logically speaking, the answer is no. Neither the sun nor the outrageous desert temperatures in peak August are hot enough to do so. The temperature would need to reach the melting point of steel, which is over 1,000° Fahrenheit. It does not get that hot.
And yet, Clark posted the following image on his Instagram story after practice:
That car is very clearly melted.
The tail light is one thing. A material like polycarbonate is going to melt much quicker than metal— but even polycarbonate doesn’t even start to soften until the temperature reaches ~500º Fahrenheit.
For the rest of the car to melt like that does not make sense. Why does this not happen more often?
Snopes actually debunked a very similar happening in 2018. It found that cars in Arizona were melting because of a nearby fire, not because of a heatwave.
